Jack Greenberg

Jack Greenberg (born December 22, 1924, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American attorney and legal scholar. He was the Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund from 1961 to 1984, succeeding Thurgood Marshall. He was involved in numerous crucial cases, including Brown v. Board of Education. In all, he argued 40 civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. He has served as Dean of Columbia College and Vice Dean of Columbia Law School, and is currently the Alphonse Fletcher Jr. Professor of Law at Columbia University's Law School. Greenberg graduated from Columbia College in 1945, and Columbia Law School in 1948. Greenberg became the only white legal counselor for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund ("LDF") in 1949,...